Hello all. Just for fun, here is a picture of an older Bechstein damper (1870). Those dampers are very small, and installed in a way that their action is very progressive. Only flat felt : no V shaped felt on bichords, no W shaped felt on trichords : this grants that there is no ennoying sound when you depress the pedal. Above this, I saw some of those regulated so the few first bass strings dampers lift a trifle earlier than the rest of the dampers. All this contributes to let the (aware) pianist control a whole world of exciting shades in colour, warmth, space, etc. though here again, the limit between sublime and ridiculous is a red line. (But it always is, isn't it ?) Stéphane Collin. [Photo at:] https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/10/21/69/d7/114- 1461_IMG.JPG [Alternate URL:] http://tinyurl.com/gdhq
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